School: Dunleer (C.) (roll number 1496)
- Location:
- Dunleer, Co. Louth
- Teacher: M. Ní Chathasaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0674, Page 123
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- Travelling Folk.Travellers are not so numerous as they were long ago.
Long ago there were three kinds of travellers, gipsies travellers selling clothes, and musicians.
When weddings or feasts were held the musicians used go to the house and play the fiddle for the dancing and stay in the house that night.
Now there are only two kinds of travelling folk, tinkers and people selling clothes. Tinkers travel in caravans and in cart. They sell laces, safety pins and many other tings.
The tinkers that come most frequently to Dunleer are the Gaynors and the Powells.
